SBC DotNet Weblog

This winter is getting to us - we'll have to wait for Carl to speak again. Our local .NET Dev Group meeting tomorrow has been cancelled due to the weather. bummer..

I have examined two desktop blogging tools recently (BlogJet  and w.bloggar). I can see the next version of MS Office having such a tool in the Office portfolio with the blogging site as an add-on to the Windows Server. This would be similar to SharePoint-WSS add-on to the W2K3 Server. It would fit in well with the Small Business Server - the weblog site can be an internal communications source (news, views, events, etc) and the admin management using the Desktop Blogger. I think all this is beginning to fall into place for the end-user.

This is a test via BlogJet.

This is the first post from desktop w.bloggar (v3.03).

Yasser Shohoud has posted an article at MSDN about building Indigo's web service apps using SFx & MFx. I think this has rejuvenated my interest in getting a new box for Longhorn.

Recently MS, BEA & Tibco announced the WS-Eventing specs for web services to communicate events (between the WS nodes). IBM had refrained from this joint venture and announced two specifications which will do the same - WS-Notifications and WS-Resource Framework. The key element here is reliable messaging which should include communicating even in the presence of two or more different messaging protocols.